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...bluff old-style Democratic pol. Though studded with deals and concessions to buy off various Congressmen and their constituencies, the tax package Rostenkowski wrung out of his committee last month was at least a reasonable facsimile of the reform proposal launched by Reagan with great fanfare last spring. Beset by conflicting advice from his aides, however, the President hesitated before endorsing Rostenkowski's bill two weeks ago, and even then his praise was lukewarm...
...pernicious abuse of individual freedoms in our society. Like those who carry handguns or operate automobiles, umbrella users pose a serious danger to the general public. That they are allowed wantonly to menace unarmed rainy-weather walkers is a disgrace in a community such as Cambridge--one at once beset by wet weather and committed to protecting the welfare of its citizens...
...Jobs' insistence on building the Macintosh in a self-contained way, which has made it all but impossible to add new components to existing machines to boost their power. Jobs' single-minded attention to the Macintosh and his indifference to other Apple products exacerbated tensions between him and Sculley. Beset by such troubles, Apple watched its stock price steadily tumble from a high of more than $62 a share in 1983. The stock closed last week...
...Slavorum Apostoli, John Paul did not directly accuse the Communists of conducting religious persecutions, but his comment on the problems that beset the saints can be read as an allusion to the current trials of Catholicism in East bloc states. The Pope also appeared to be making a veiled reference to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe when he wrote that Cyril and Methodius "took as their own the difficulties and problems inevitable for peoples who were defending their own identity against the military and cultural pressure of the new Romano-Germanic Empire...
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, already beset by unrest in the states of Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir, immediately called his Cabinet into emergency session and ordered special security measures. Police leaves were canceled and troops in battle gear called in to patrol sensitive areas of the capital, particularly the sections along the Yamuna River that have large Sikh populations. President Zail Singh, himself a Sikh, called off a planned state visit to Zambia to be on hand in what the government considered a major emergency...